Meteorological summer ended over the weekend, and for Phoenix, it wasn't as hot as last year.

Summer 2024 was the hottest on record in Phoenix, while 2025 ended as just the fourth-hottest.

The five hottest summers in Phoenix have all occurred since 2015.

If this summer felt brutally hot but somehow not quite as miserable as last year, you got it right.

Phoenix just wrapped up one of its hottest summers on record — but not the hottest. Last year still remains the summer to beat for extreme heat . Summer 2025 ended as the fourth-hottest on record, with an average temperature of 96.2 degrees from June through August, the meteorological summer.

That’s still warmer than normal thanks to only sporadic monsoon rainfall and a persistent high-pressure system parked over the region.

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